Liberal Think-tank Unirule Evicted From Beijing Offices
On Tuesday, one of China’s last remaining liberal think-tanks, Unirule, was evicted from its...
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LatestJournalism, Censorship, and the 19th Party Congress
At Deutsche Welle, Sabine Peschel talks to Audrey Jiajia Li, a former TV journalist who has turned...
“Ultra-left” Takes Over Journal as Ex-editor Loses in Court
Last month, senior staff at long-running liberal journal Yanhuang Chunqiu were replaced by its...
Journal Remains Defiant in Face of Likely Closure
Two weeks ago, the government-sponsored supervising organization of the long-running liberal...
Court Rejects Lawsuit From Besieged Liberal Journal
Last week, senior staff at the reformist journal Yanhuang Chunqiu were replaced by its supervising...
Liberal Journal Says It Will End Publication
Last week, staff at the high-profile reformist journal Yanhuang Chunqiu threatened a lawsuit after...
Minitrue: Don’t Cover Reshuffle at Liberal Journal
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
Yang Jisheng Lashes Out at Censors
In April, liberal Beijing magazine Yanhuang Chunqiu’s chief editor Yang Jisheng was...
Hu Deping on Rule of Law and Political Reform
Economist and politician Hu Deping may be best known as the son of Hu Yaobang, the party leader...
Yanhuang Chunqiu Fights for Editorial Independence
The son of former party general secretary Hu Yaobang has taken over as publisher of liberal...
Sensitive: We Are Willing to Endure Injustice
As of September 23, the following search terms are blocked on Weibo (not including the “search for...
Veteran Journalist Xiao Shu Detained in Beijing
The South China Morning Post reports that writer and veteran journalist Chen Min (pen name Xiao Shu) was detained on Friday amid a campaign for the release of detained lawyer and fellow New Citizens’ Movement activist Xu...
Chang Ping on Media Censorship and Its Future
At ChinaFile, Ouyang Bin talks to former Southern Weekly editor Chang Ping about the New Year censorship stand-off at the newspaper, China’s changing media climate, and prospects for reform under Xi Jinping. Why does it...
Unhappy Guangdong Journalists Protest New Year Meddling
Wang Yang, father of the “Happy” Guangdong Model and formerly mooted counterweight to Bo Xilai, was last month replaced as Guangdong Party chief by rising star Hu Chunhua. Having failed to win a seat on the reduced...
Website of Pro-Reform Magazine Shut Down
The South China Morning Post reports that the website of Yanhuang Chunqiu magazine, a liberal publication that published a pro-reform New Year greeting, was shut down on Friday morning: The magazine’s official account on Sina...
China Magazine Praises Ousted Zhao in Test of Taboo
From Reuters: A Chinese magazine has published a memoir praising purged Communist Party leader Zhao Ziyang, making a rare break with the official taboo about the leader ousted in the bloody and still-sensitive upheavals of 1989....
Wu Si（吴思): “They Produce Lies, We Pretend to Believe”
Xujun Eberlain of Inside-Out China has translated an interview with Wu Si, editor of Yanhuang Chunqiu magazine, published in the New Weekly (新周刊): New Weekly: This is a question of historical view: what history is true? Wu Si:...
In China, Media Make Small Strides
From the Washington Post: This fall, a scholarly magazine that focuses on Communist Party history pushed the envelope again. Editors, emboldened a few years ago after writing about a rarely mentioned former top official the...
